Sabayon is a Gentoo-based distribution which follows the works-out-of-the-box philosophy, aiming to give the user a wide number of applications that are ready for use and a self-configured operating system. Sabayon offers the user an easy-to-use workspace with a captivating look, good hardware detection and a large number of up-to-date software packages installed by default, with additional software available from a repository. Sabayon is available in several flavors featuring respectively the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments.

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 14.05, the latest version of the Gentoo-based distribution available in GNOME, KDE and Xfce desktop flavours: "Sabayon 14.05 is a modern and easy to use Linux distribution based on Gentoo, following an extreme, yet reliable, rolling-release model. This is a monthly release generated, tested and published to mirrors by our build servers containing the latest and greatest collection of software available in the Entropy repositories. Sabayon developers have the funny habit of packaging all the latest stuff that is in the Gentoo repositories and make it available as soon as possible to our users. If you are looking for the latest KDE, GNOME or LibreOffice, the chances that it's in the repos already are very high." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (torrents): Sabayon_Linux_14.05_amd64_GNOME.iso (1,499MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_14.05_amd64_KDE.iso (2,061MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_14.05_amd64_Xfce.iso (1,265MB, MD5, torrent).

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 11, a Gentoo-based distribution available in GNOME 3, KDE, MATE and Xfce flavours: "We're here once again to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 11 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 10, this is a release you cannot miss! There you have it, a shiny distro for your home computer, your laptop and your servers, virtualized or not. Linux Kernel 3.7 with BFQ iosched, GNOME 3.6.2, KDE 4.9.5 (upgraded to 4.10.1 as soon as it is available), Xfce 4.10, LibreOffice 3.6.3 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Complete EFI/UEFI and UEFI SecureBoot support, greatly improved NVIDIA Optimus support through Bumblebee, MATE 1.4 for those missing GNOME 2.x...." Read the full release announcement for more details. Download links: Sabayon_Linux_11_amd64_G.iso (1,933MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_11_amd64_K.iso (2,443MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_11_amd64_MATE.iso (1,034MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_11_amd64_Xfce.iso (1,602MB, MD5, torrent).

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 10, a Gentoo-based distribution with a choice of four desktop environments (GNOME 3, KDE, MATE and Xfce): "We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 10 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 9, this is just another step towards world domination. Linux Kernel 3.5.4 with BFQ iosched, GNOME 3.4.2, KDE 4.9 (4.9.1 available in a few days), Xfce 4.10 and LibreOffice 3.6 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Gentoo hardened kernels, improved Rigo - a new way of browsing and installing applications, more ZFS integration work, Mesa 9 stack, Amazon EC2 support, Infinality FreeType patches, and much more." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information and screenshots. Quick links to download the KDE edition (please see the project's mirrors page and torrent tracker if you'd like to try any of the other three flavours): Sabayon_Linux_10_x86_K.iso (1,976MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_10_amd64_K.iso (2,128MB, MD5, torrent).